Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
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Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
The source to a program is a whole other animal. It's the source that can
become public domain after a product is deemed outsold and not going to make
any money by the company. The sources are way way different than the exe.
However the idea is the same, if adobe put the source on their site it's now
a GNU product. They may make money off cd's from business still but not
likely. the doom source was released because it made id no money so for no
gain of their own they basically helped inspiring first person shooter game
writters. I mean think of this.. if the source to windows 2000 and/or 98 got
out microsoft would likely go bankrupt overnight, this is the reason it is
not on the internet but rather on Mr. Super Computer in an isolated room
beind a shitload of steel and codes.
----- Original Message -----
From: Olle Hedman <oh@hem.passagen.se>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: A89: Me distributing roms.
>
> yeah. whatever. I am just waiting if there will be any response from TI.
> I have not got any mail yet, but they have been visiting me again.
> Either they don't care, or they are teaming up their laywers ;)
> The only change I have done so far, is that I no longer distribute the
newest
> rom version. If anyone wants that, they can just as well download it from
TI.
>
> file://Olle
>
> Scott Dial wrote:
> > Isn't this one of those situations where the software becomes public
> > domain or something like that. I thought when software was no longer in
> > production that it becomes public domain after certain amount of time.
> > Whatever...
>
>
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